The Gray And The Brown - why the baby boom generation's concerns about race may mean that it's stabbing itself in the back as it moves into retirement.
posted by Artw
on Aug 19, 2010 -
66 comments
The Way of All Flesh Fascinating series of found photographs, all of the same woman, documenting 50 years of changes. Sort of like those before and after meth photos, but without the meth and without the sleaze. Sort of not like that at all, actually.
Previously (that link at bit NSFW) Also, see
photobooth.net (
previously) and this
link (very web 2.0, that fancy "press here, no HERE" link technique) to Betty Hines' show of found photobooth photos has lots of other similar sites linked.
posted by johngumbo
on Sep 1, 2007 -
25 comments
...Rembrandt's last self-portrait, for instance, shows an old man having a good laugh at the ways of the world, even as he is about to leave the stage. The Western world may be ageing, then, but, far from this amounting to a 'dying of the light', a case can be made for the very opposite, certainly where Bob Dylan's renaissance as an artist is concerned. Neither should age be confounded with a heavier tread. For while a perception and characterisation of the surreal nature of much of human life was a defining quality of Bob Dylan's first golden creative period in the 1960s, it's also a delightful characteristic of his artistic renaissance in the 'noughties' of the new millennium.
Bob Dylan and the ageing of the West
In other news, May 24th is
International Talk Like Bob Dylan DayOf course, he was 23 in 1965, the year when he recorded Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde On Blonde, but, gosh darn it, he's still writing songs and touring and he still isn't dead yet..."
posted by y2karl
on May 24, 2007 -
38 comments
Child prodigies. (Just in case you were starting to feeling content with your middle-aged achievements.) [Warning: YouTube-heavy posting] [Warning: Chopin-heavy posting]
posted by humblepigeon
on Apr 24, 2007 -
36 comments
There are about 250,000 centenarians alive today, including several hundred
"supercentarians" aged 110+ years. Jerry Friedman, founder of Earth's Elders
Foundation, has spent the past four years on a landmark project to introduce the world to
the oldest people on earth. And in a similar endeavor, photographer Mark Story has been capturing portraits and stories of people from around the globe who are
Living in Three Centuries.
posted by madamjujujive
on Dec 4, 2006 -
16 comments
Seen something like this on one of your credit or debit cards recently?
09/25 DIGITAL AGE 888-529-98 CYPRUS, SE $24.99
Join the crowd. You might remember something from earlier in the summer, when
CardSystems Solutions reported a security breach that had gone on for months. Or maybe you remember a bit of
more recent news, when "a California judge ruled Friday that Visa USA Inc. and MasterCard International Inc. don't have to send individual warnings to thousands of consumers whose personal account information was stolen during a high-tech heist uncovered earlier this year."
My family was hit on three different cards from three different banks in less than a week. Doesn't seem to matter if you ever used the card online
or not. Any guesses where "Digital Age" is getting all these valid credit and debit card numbers? Anyone? So, please, check your statements and be prepared to cancel your card immediately if you've been hit, too. Nothing good will come of these criminals being able to make additional charges against your accounts, using different shell companies to hide themselves,
continuing to do this sort of thing for years
posted by RKB
on Oct 13, 2005 -
29 comments
Not quite ready to settle down? I know how you feel. But then that's only
temporary, right?
StatsCan releases the results of a
study showing that Canadians who delay marriage are less likely to marry at all. Attitude appears to be key, with Francophones being the most likely to say "
Ça ne fait rien".
posted by dreamsign
on Jun 7, 2005 -
19 comments
What is SENS? It stands for Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence.
Confused? Aubrey de Grey believes that it is possible. His research has been in the
news
recently.
De Grey is the co-founder of the
The Methuselah Foundation, and they are offering a
prize to anyone who can demonstrate
healthy life extension in mice. More information at
The Longevity Meme and
Better Humans, among
others.
He recently spoke in
Edmonton. Is it just me, or does he remind anyone else of a cult leader? There is something that strikes me about the way his writing sounds.
The idea of anti-ageing treatment was convincingly suggested by Kim Stanley Robinson in his
Mars Trilogy, which also addressed its potential social consequences, such as overpopulation and longevity as an option exclusively for the wealthy elite.
posted by dazedandconfused
on Feb 16, 2005 -
12 comments
How long til you buy the farm? • "The
Living to 100 Life Expectancy Calculator© was designed to translate what we have learned from studies of centenarians and other longevity research into a practical and empowering tool for individuals to estimate their longevity potential."
Wasn't this on a Futurama episode?
posted by dhoyt
on Sep 8, 2004 -
29 comments
How old do I look? This is a fascinating project -- almost like an intellectual's HotOrNot, that plays with our perception and societal ideals of age and beauty. I was close to right only about half the time, otherwise I was waaaay off.
posted by mathowie
on May 8, 2004 -
64 comments
Age Maps - photographer Bobby Neele Adams fuses two photos of the same person from different points in their life, with an
unsettling effect. He uses the same technique for
couples, a unique portrait idea for you all you coupled Mefites. (nsfw, bare breasts) His
Broken Wings series is also worth noting.
posted by madamjujujive
on Feb 2, 2004 -
16 comments
You Are As Old As You Feel But... You feel old anyway, right? Well, senectitude is not just an attitude, dude. You
are getting older. Deal with it. Listen, for instance, to old man
Cicero. He knows. And if you're still enough of a spring chicken to wonder what your
emotional age is, (
not to mention tolerate Oprah), here's a little consolatory quiz to pep you up.
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Oct 12, 2003 -
24 comments
76-year old Wisconsin man carded while buying non-alcoholic beer. Wish the article had more information, like whether or not the clerk refused to sell the goods to a senior citizen, or just asked to see some ID, but still. Shouldn't a little common sense come into play here? Do you blame the "old man" for getting upset in the first place, or the clerk for not bending "the rules," or the owner for the policy, or the lawyers for the law suits that engendered the policy, or prohibition for getting this country so worked about about alcohol and appropriate drinking ages in the first place? Me?
I blame society.
And yes, yes, I know "newsfilter this" and "newsfilter that." But c'mon. It's
Wisconsin. Appreciate the irony.
posted by RKB
on Jan 21, 2003 -
60 comments
Mothers who
wait to have a baby are at risk of evolutionary extinction. "If you want to see your line persist, then it's probably optimum to start reproducing in your early to mid-20s". According to this 220 year statistical model
late-reproducing women [genetic lineage] declined as a proportion of the population from 11 percent to about 5 percent
posted by stbalbach
on May 27, 2002 -
8 comments
I Don't Wanna Grow Up... When did you first consider yourself to be a full-fledged adult? How many more years later was it when you realized what a child you were when you first thought that? :-)
The Washington Post had this conversation-starting story this morning about stretching the boundaries of what we consider adolescence. Some social scientists now argue that our (e.g. American) society has allowed the maturing process to take longer and longer, and that many people are still adolescent in their emotional and intellectual development into their mid-30s. Needless to say, there's a lot of disagreement.
posted by briank
on Jan 2, 2002 -
56 comments
Chuck Berry turns 75 today. This man is unquestionably one of the greatest original Rock 'n Rollers. But is 75 too old to rock? Tunes like Johnny B. Goode and Maybelline may be timeless, but at what point should performers of what was originally young people's music think about hangin' 'em up? For that matter, is rock too old to rock?
posted by groundhog
on Oct 18, 2001 -
18 comments
